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RHSA-2006-0609: devhelp

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the devhelp packages

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Updated seamonkey packages that fix several security bugs in the mozilla
package are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Seamonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup
client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

The Mozilla Foundation has discontinued support for the Mozilla Suite. This
update deprecates the Mozilla Suite in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in
favor of the supported Seamonkey Suite.

This update also resolves a number of outstanding Mozilla security issues.

Users of Mozilla are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains
Seamonkey version 1.0.3 that corrects these issues.

Solution : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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